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With Uber’s problems grabbing all the headlines, it’s easy to overlook that the other great “sharing economy” company, Airbnb, is also having issues caused by an overaggressive expansion and a tendency to ignore rules, even if they are reasonable. Be...
DATE: Dec 13, 2017
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The Washington Post reporters who turned the tables on Project Veritas and exposed the group’s sneaky plan to discredit the newspaper represent journalism at its best. But that story broke just weeks after BuzzFeed News revealed that such nefarious p...
DATE: Dec 12, 2017
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The Progressive Labour Party election platform said it would “grant additional powers to the existing Price Control Commission to examine ways to reduce the cost of living in Bermuda”.
On Friday, hidden among controversial Bills such as the Domestic ...
DATE: Dec 12, 2017
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The Domestic Partnership Act will partially abolish same-sex marriage in Bermuda and create a three-tier system in which heterosexual couples can choose between marriage or domestic partnership, same-sex marriages that were enacted before this Bill c...
DATE: Dec 11, 2017
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The story is told of a man who became very irate with his wife when she told him that the car broke down and had to be towed to the garage. He yelled at her that she was ripped off because she paid way too much for the car to be towed one mile to the...
DATE: Dec 08, 2017
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Vic Ball
As the Shadow Minister of Education, I am delighted that “Plan 2022: Bermuda’s Strategic Plan for Public School Education”, the multi–year strategic plan for Bermuda’s public school system has at last been presented to the people of Bermuda.
This com...
DATE: Dec 07, 2017
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What began several years ago with the likes of the Bill Cosby scandal, which at best seemed an attempt to counter powerful men, including many celebrities who lived as though they had an untouchable entitlement as they used their clout to veil sexual...
DATE: Dec 06, 2017
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Khalid Wasi
Before it went delightfully off the rails several seasons ago, one of my favourite television shows was Grey’s Anatomy. In season two, in 2005, the writers treated us to one of the best lines ever uttered by Ellen Pompeo, playing a lovesick Meredith ...
DATE: Dec 04, 2017
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So which is it? Is the Government seriously considering the i-word or not? You may recall that the Junior Minister of Home Affairs, Jason Hayward, who also happens to be the president of the Bermuda Public Services Union, was the first government off...
DATE: Dec 04, 2017
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In the right-wing campaign to discredit the truth, every day brings a new low. I don’t mean Roy Moore’s campaign for the United States Senate, although that certainly has been at the centre, lately, of the broader crusade.
No, I mean the insidious dr...
DATE: Nov 29, 2017
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Margaret Sullivan
